Pyladies Bangalore conducted the
second workshop, “Introduction to Python programming” for people from different
backgrounds. The meetup was announced much earlier for almost three weeks ahead
of the session happening. The meetup details are here Meetup Event details[1].

25
members RSVPed for the meetp group and 5 were waitlisted since the hall at
Center for Internet and Society could accommodate only 25 members.

Out of the 25 members, 9 members
including the workshop organizer turned up for the event. An attendance sheet
was passed around to people who signed in to be there at the event.

Table 1 Members that RSVPed for the event

Sl No

Name

User ID

Title

Location

Guests

1

Annapoornima Koppad

user 202021007

Bangalore

2

babitha S

user 202418674

Bangalore

3

Harshita Kasera

user 193719707

Bangalore

4

Ishita

user 203236602

Bangalore

5

Manik

user 98409532

Bangalore

6

mohammed iftekhar

user 203508110

Bangalore

7

poornalakshmi

user 203198293

Bangalore

8

Pratibha

user 190760428

Bangalore

9

Raghuveer Anush

user 172847942

Bommanahalli

10

Rohini

user 110303842

Bangalore

11

Shailaja J

user 203315702

Bangalore

12

Shreya

user 203921668

Bangalore

13

Shwetha Thammaiah

user 130463702

Bangalore

14

sithara skumar

user 200574264

Bangalore

15

Srivalli

user 203199821

Bangalore

16

Srividya

user 183191227

Bangalore

17

Suman Debnath

user 102603302

Bangalore

18

Surbhi Verma

user 203800978

Bangalore

19

VIJETA

user 145482942

Bangalore

Table 2: Actual members that turned up for the event:

Sl No

Name

1

Annapoornima Koppad

2

Srividya C

3

Raghuveer Anush B

4

Arushi Sharma

5

Manik Jain

6

Ravikumar I

7

Poornalakshmi

8

Manikanta

The members arrived slowly at
around 10:00 am. I did an ice breaker session for the early half hour
introducing the members to each other and explaining the motivation behind the
entire event. After the brief ice breaker session, the members introduced
themselves to each other and explained about their interests in learning
Python. I briefly explained the Pyladies
Bangalore available here [2].

I had prepared a PowerPoint
presentation that I used to explain my concepts throughout the event.

I explained briefly the concepts of
Python datatypes, lists, tuples and then we broke for lunch at 12:30 pm. We
ordered for Pizza from the Café coffee day.

We started again at 1:30 pm after
the lunch.

In the afternoon, I covered the control loops,
range, functions, classes and objects, Python sorting, file handling within Python
and some Python utilities. I ended the session at 5:00 pm in the evening.

I still have the remainder of the
workshop grant with me with which I plan to do another event provided Python
Software Foundation, and Pyladies chapter supports me further like they have
been supporting me so far.

I would like to thank Python
Software Foundation, Pyladies chapter, Mr. Sunil Abraham from Center for
Internet and Society, the security person from Center for Internet and Society,
and all the participants who attended the event. I may have missed people who may have
contributed towards making this workshop happen, I thank all of them for their
veiled support.